| In 2003, as part of a grant from the Daniel Langlois foundation, I constructed and performed a Shinth, an instrument designed for circuit bending. |
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| I also started Ciat-Lonbarde in 2003, with the Ambrazier, a digital delay instrument, which later became Tranoe, Cocolase, Cocostuber, then Cocoquantus, and finally Cafe Quantum.
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| Ciat-Lonbarde also released kits for the Fourses and Fyral which are played by touch and other circuit bending techniques. |
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| Ciat-Lonbarde also released the sidrassi, sidrazzi, and tetrazzi, which became the sidrax and tetrax that are available today.
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| The Plumbutter came about after a long process of prototyping an experimental drum machine. The Rolzer is its source of free jazz energy.
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| Deerhorn started as a series of hanging instruments to explore invisible (radio) fields in space
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 | It became the Deerhorn and Tierhorn series of instruments.
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| Steve Korn and I started Shbobo in the Fall of 2010, which focused exclusively on gestural instruments for USB. |
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| Shnth and Tarsh (Shtar) are the two results.
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 | The Tocante line of musical instruments is "about" and "touching" the materials of electronics. Each touchpad represents a pitch according to industry "preferred numbers," chosen by old wartime engineers for non-musical purposes. Here they form a unique and haunting musical scale, not unlike that of a gamelan or the neutral intervals of Persian music. Beyond these base pitches, three golden sandrodes flank each touchpad; touching these androgynous nodes yields intermodulation, pitch and timbral shifts, and emergent chaotic masses. The instruments come in three flavors: thyris the triangle, bistab the square, and phashi the circle. The oscillators sound like a bowed string, a most powerful clarinet, and a howling serene whistle, respectively. Each responds to touch differently. Solar panels charge the onboard batteries, that power the oscillators and a speaker. They are the perfect self-contained instrument for nightly music at the campground.
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| It is also available in red, and other flavors: zenert is filtered noise, karper is karpluss-strong, and studworth is the kit. |
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| Ieaskul F. Mobenthey is a series of modules in the Eurorack format.
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